Learning and the Arts

Literature, visual arts, music, theatre and learning.

Historic places
350Historic places
Built
1790–2023Built
Provinces and territories
11Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 56
  • Provincial 77
  • Municipal 217
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • New Brunswick96
  • Ontario54
  • British Columbia45
  • Nova Scotia45
  • Prince Edward Island30
  • Saskatchewan23
  • Manitoba18
  • Quebec18
  • Alberta17
  • Newfoundland and Labrador2
  • Northwest Territories2

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1910s: 56 of the 283 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1790Bailly HouseLunenburg, Nova Scotia
  2. 1800Bulmer HouseGreat Village, Nova Scotia
  3. 1806McCulloch HousePictou, Nova Scotia

The register gives no construction date for 67 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 139 of these 350 places. These names come up most often.

Names marked ↗ open their entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800–1950.

  1. Henry Frederick Busch (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  2. James Charles Dumaresq (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  3. Nazaire Dugas3 places
  4. F. Neil Brodie (biography, opens in a new tab)3 places
  5. René-Arthur Fréchet (biography, opens in a new tab)2 places
  6. Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold & Sise2 places

All 350 places

Often found together

Collections that share the most places with this one.

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